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[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: ‘Hold on to that egg, guv’nor,’ Rooster said in the direction of a rookie receiver. ‘’Cause you can’t score without that apple’.
at apple, n.1
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 305: Hanneman shot a bird at the fans, some of whom were trying to get one of us [...] to come over the fence and fight.
at shoot a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 263: A part of the body that attracts considerable private speculation, but hardly any public, is the old boy.
at old boy, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 178: ‘We got some wine ahead of time and brown-bagged it down there’.
at brownbag, v.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 107: In the last exhibition game [...] a guy complained, said I hit him a cheap shot. I said ‘You motherfucker, you’re not that good, that I have to cheap-shot you’.
at cheap shot, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 10: ‘Somebody you slap in the face and he don’t do anything. That’s the definition of a chump’.
at chump, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 37: [A]lthough he was built much too well to be considered fat by civilian [i.e. non-pro footballers] standards, he had a great tendency to put weight on.
at civilian, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 131: [T]he announcer was going down the Steeler roster, cutting up each guy.
at cut up, v.1
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 73: Ron Bell, the rookie, he’s supposed to be an intellectual, I dusted him [i.e. at chess] six times in a row.
at dust, v.1
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: ‘Hold on to that egg, guv’nor,’ Rooster said in the direction of a rookie receiver. ‘’Cause you can’t score without that apple’.
at egg, n.1
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 111: Today they say the guy musta been nuts. ‘Hey man, funky dude.’ Look at you like you’re a weirdo if you do things like that.
at funky, adj.3
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: ‘Hold on to that egg, guv’nor,’ Rooster said in the direction of a rookie receiver. ‘’Cause you can’t score without that apple’.
at governor, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 132: ‘That New York game, I was ready to hang it up in pregame warm-ups. You get those feelings, people don’t realize’.
at hang it up, v.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 8: In Pittsburgh they call a brawl a ‘hey-rube’.
at hey rube, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 36: [I]n ‘73, at least on offense, no Steeler ever became the Man.
at man, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 5: The Steelers and the people around them were [...] held firmly but hazardously together by the goal of winning all the marbles.
at marbles, n.4
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 113: When a batter hits a baseball on the nose he says, ‘I got it all’ .
at on the nose under nose, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 17: You don’t have to drink too many shots and beers [...] before you begin to feel the frustrations perking all around you.
at percolate, v.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 40: If any element of the Steelers was flatulent, it was the offense. So you wouldn’t want to call the Front Four the Poot Troops.
at poot, n.2
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 205: ‘The tradition here was always Jock Sutherland rock ‘em sock ‘em miner football,’ said Artie Rooney.
at rock-em-sock-em (adj.) under rock, v.1
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 116: ‘One of the things I think you have to do in coaching is not screw up people you’re working with’.
at screw up, v.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 119: Ben Davidson hit a quarterback once—I was in there ahead of him and I had already come to a stop, the ball was thrown, and Ben ran past me and smeared the guy.
at smear, v.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 61: ‘I’m not blowing smoke. Everybody on this team is convinced we’ll win the Super Bowl’.
at blow smoke up someone’s ass (v.) under smoke, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 271: ‘If I get to play too, I’m liable to snap out. Be too happy.’.
at snap out (v.) under snap, v.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 186: Baldy, a chunky bald Harp [...] , still operates on the North Side, and gives soul shakes and calls people ‘Brother’.
at soul shake (n.) under soul, adj.1
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 26: (‘Stink out the place,’ or ‘. . . the joint,’ or ‘. . . the house,’ is a player’s common expression for doing badly, as in ‘My hands stunk out the joint tonight’).
at stink, v.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 71: ‘That Red Man,’ [i.e. chewing tobacco] said Hanneman. ‘That’s just like candy. Baseball players chew that. Baseball is a titty-pulling sport.’.
at titty-sucking (adj.) under titty, n.
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 231: All through the trip the three of us smoked excellent cigars the size of Joe Greene’s fingers [...] The Chief called these cigars ‘Tobies.’.
at toby, n.5
[US] R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 113: ‘Unload’ and ‘ sell out’ are players’ term[s] for what you do when you put all of yourself into another body.
at unload, v.
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